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Patrol isn’t working, when I click rollback nothing happens, when I click Mark as patrolled nothing happens, problem started today.

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@ICanGuessItLol is it working for you?

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Either you have encountered an empty patrol log and pressing Mark as Patrolled would not traverse to the next edit (you need a traditional patrol for it) or there was a glitch on your part. My patrolling (as of right now) is currently working fine.

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I saw an anonymous user edited spam so I was going ti rollback it but it’s not working in any article…

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That happens to me, sometimes.

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It may just be that you hit your patrol limit for the day; when you try again the next day, does it work?

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This isn’t expected behavior for a patrol throttle - when you hit the cap, you’re meant to get a “thanks for all your hard work patrolling today” message within the tool (and reverts outside RCP should still work). It’s not meant to just become unresponsive.

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Yep, so just trying to figure out if it’s related to the limit or not:slight_smile:

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Oh. I misinterpreted your response as you not being aware of that message and thinking this was normal behavior. My bad!

I’ll get out of the way now

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I can see how my “just” made it sound that way - the perils of text communication!:smiley:

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Lol what happened to patrolling? I just patrolled 200 edits now.

I guess I want to make a new thread for explaining all bugs

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BUGS:

  1. Today rc patrol let me do 200 edits!

  2. An anonymous user did a bad edit so I rollbacked but patrol coach is saying 'it would be better to click rollback" iam 100% sure that I clicked rollback.

  3. RC patrol is showing already mark as patrolled edits

  4. I can only patrol at morning if I do at night patrol icons like "Rollback,Mark as patrolled) nothing work!

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I think maybe because you have been on wikiHow for longer now the limit is longer? I’m not sure because when I first joined I didn’t patrol much. Maybe try Traditional RC for a while.

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I don’t know…

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@JayneG No, I didn’t hit the limit and it’s not related to limits.

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RC Patrol is an extremely finicky tool, and it’s been that way for a long time; it’s entirely normal for the tool to not function as expected now and again. If something generally doesn’t impact functionality (like patrolling 200 edits – which appears to be related to several edits being bundled together in the tool – or showing already-patrolled edits, which may just mean someone beat you to patrolling it), there’s no need to report it. The tool is incredibly fragile and trying to fix one problem can cause a plethora of other ones, and our engineering team only consists of seven people who also have to work on other features of the site and keep it secure and up-to-date; they need to prioritize issues that they can reproduce in a testing environment and that affect key functions for more than one or two users.

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Understood everything except this.

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i.e., somebody else also got the edit in their queue and marked it as patrolled before you did.

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So what about patrol coach bug??

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As I explained earlier, the issue needs to be able to be reproduced, and it needs to affect functionality for more than one or two users. Since there’s no way for us to confirm whether you hit Rollback or are just misremembering, there’s no way to tell if this is a widespread issue unless someone else reports it.

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